Timeline for Can a military pilot make his airplane invisible for the ATCs?
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| Jun 14, 2017 at 14:36 | comment | added | Klaws | "A height of 50km": good point about the airplane. I do not know which airplane is capable of launching an AGM-88 at that height, but the idea of firing this missile into the stratopause is real. The diagrams I have seen suggest that AGM-88 is launched at some lower altitude, then the AGM-88 ascends into the stratopause...and then waits for an enemy RADAR to appear. Not sure about details there, maybe it could perform the final approach as a glide bomb? | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 21:19 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | While I'm definitely glad to see someone mentioning that fighter planes and fighter pilots have a vested interest in being able to evade radar detections through a variety of means, I do have to politely suggest that deploying a HARM against the ground radar is most likely not in the CONOPS scope the OP was intending. It would certainly make it so the radar is incapable of seeing the plane, but it also is a very... visible action. =) | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 20:04 | comment | added | MSalters | "a height of 50km" - that is way outside the envelope of any airplane capable of launching an AGM-88, and consequently outside the design limits. The rocket engine will fire at that height (doesn't need atmospheric oxygen) but the guidance fins need sufficient airflow to work. Did you perhaps mean 50.000 feet? That's somewhat high, but not for an EuroFighter Typhoon (ceiling ~65.000 ft/20 km) | |
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| Apr 3, 2017 at 5:56 | history | answered | Klaws | CC BY-SA 3.0 |